Gaming Doughnut: The First Fifty Episodes

Episode 27: Fall-In! Convention Wrap-Up

Episode 27: Fall-In! Convention Wrap-Up
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Hosts: Duck Sauce and Gyro

Duck Sauce and Gyro. Gyro and Duck Sauce. These two stalwart Minions discuss, in depth, their experiences and the grandeur of this past Fall-In! gaming convention, all on the road trek back to the Minions lair. Within you'll find day-by-day discussion of the games they played, the games they loved, the food they ate, the stuff they saw, the people they hung out with, and so much more. So check out this episode, it's chock full of gaming goodness and the usual banter you've come to love. Having listened to it already I gotta say it's "not too shabby"!

Show Notes:

• What Would Patton Do?
• Giant Stompy Robots
• Fireball Forward
• Litko Aerosystems
• Duck Sauce's Anti-Hangover Techniques™
• Kryomek
  

Episode 20: WGP; Heroes vs. Aquanaut and the Shrimper

Episode 20: WGP; Heroes vs. Aquanaut and the Shrimper
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Hosts: Duck Sauce, Gyro, Biscuit, Americano, and T-Bone

Show Notes:

• With Great Power actual play
• Americano's Birthday
  

Our heroes, the Red Son and Lifebolt, deal out justice to two of the most nefarious villains in the ocean depths...Aquanaut and the Shrimper! They are joined by two new heroes to the scene; a gun-toting vigilante named Nightstalker, and the Alien Plumber; a middle-management engineer stranded on Earth due to a freak wormhole/toilet bowl accident.

Episode 17: With Great Power...Giant-Sized Issue

Episode 17: With Great Power...Giant-Sized Issue
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Hosts: Duck Sauce, Gyro, Biscuit, Flounder, and Pinto

Show Notes:

• With Great Power actual play
• Gyro's Guards Armoured
• Adventure Con '10
• Pinto's Picks
• Piquet: Field of Battle
• Duck Sauce's Birthday
• Ages of the Hosts
• Lost about Lost
• Gyro's Alien (pic below)
• The Human Centipede
• Zombie Tangent
• Little Wars
  

Episode sixteen passes the 'get focused people!' curse on to the next host to man the GM conn; Duck Sauce. We begin with a meandering irreverence of unusually high proportions, which is saying something with this group. Next we move on to an entertaining game of the superhero storytelling RPG, With Great Power. All the usual Minions goodness applies.


Gyro's Alien Free-Trader


Pinto's "size really doesn't matter" pair of dice

Episode 16: With Great Power...

Episode 16: With Great Power...
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Hosts: Duck Sauce, Gyro, Biscuit, Flounder, and Pinto

Show Notes:

• With Great Power actual play
• Introduction to a new host
• Bohnanza
  
• Return of a MIA host
• R.I.P. Dio
• Storm Wardens teaser pic (below)
• Gyro's correct pronunciation of Mjolnir
• Discussion of Iron Man 2
• Superhero...porn
• More coitus derailment
• Flounder's new blog
• Miscellaneous superhero chat
  

Episode sixteen passes the 'get focused people!' curse on to the next host to man the GM conn; Duck Sauce. We begin with a meandering irreverence of unusually high proportions, which is saying something with this group. Next we move on to an entertaining game of the superhero storytelling RPG, With Great Power. All the usual Minions goodness applies.

Episode 15: Mouse Guard Actual Play Session 3

Episode 15: Mouse Guard Session 3
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Hosts: Duck Sauce, Gyro, Biscuit, T-Bone, and Americano

Show Notes:

• Mouse Guard actual play
• Conclusion of three game story arc
• Post-game discussion of rules and mechanics
  

In episode fourteen we saw a lot of pre-game discussion and warm up, so for episode fifteen we launched straight into the actual play of Mouse Guard. In this third session, we see the patrol come face-to-face (or is it snout-to-snout?) with the antagonists of Gilpledge. The heroes try to root out the conspiracy, find the traitor, and fight their toughest opposition yet.

A Model's Eye View

Flounder makes his in-sight check, literally

This last game night I was able to pull off some candid shots of some of the hosts getting their LOS groove on. We were playing a Two Hour Wargame, and as you may or may not know, a large mechanic deals with reactionary shooting. This is all based on the in-sight test, and that requires line-of-sight, thanks to this we got a lot of squinting and checking. I was able to snap off many of these without anyone realizing what I was doing (obviously).


Duck Sauce lines up his [EDIT: MG-34!]


Bi3cuit gets uncomfortably close to help Pinto, ahem, line up his shot


Bi3cuit kicking out the product placement in the background


Pinto sidles into a terrain shot, I didn't see this 'til I downloaded the pics!


Checking out flanks and cross-fires


A female tommy gunner guards the font of golden elixir

Episode 12: Mouse Guard and Much, Much More

Episode 12: Mouse Guard and Much, Much More
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Hosts: Duck Sauce, Gyro, Biscuit, T-Bone, Pad Prik, Americano, and Chick-O-Stick

Show Notes:

• Around the Horn
• Zombie (Fear and Faith) Batrep
• Dora the Adventurer Contest
• Quentin Tarrantino Movies
• Vancouver Gamestorm
• RIP Nnenn, Lego AFOL
• General Convention Talk
• The Minions plea for a Microsoft Surface
  
• Zombiephilia
• The Santa Cruz Warhammer Barter Bucket
• Upcoming ManCabin this Summer
• Interspersed Predator Homages
  
• Considerable Mouse Guard Rules Discussion
  
• Mouse Guard Actual Play
  

If the show notes alone aren't an indicator I don't know what is! This last episode is jam-packed, and with zero structure to boot. We feel this particular episode truly captures the feel of just 'hanging out at the game table' and even if you're not into the whole actual play part of the podcast, you should stick around for that too, just 'cause of all the fun we had. To quote the spousal unit upstairs, "I'm guessing everyone had a good time last night, you guys were rowdy." And we were, it was off-the-cuff fun while still getting down to business. Serious gaming business. Duck Sauce has said it before, this podcast is really just us doing what we always do, but now we have a microphone, and that sums up episode 12 the best.


Biscuit's character sketch of a cleanly shaven Gyro


Future Mouse Guard? Cat Shit One shows us how kick ass Furries can be!

Episode 11: Mouse Guard Actual Play, Session 1

Episode 11: Mouse Guard Actual Play, Session 1
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Hosts: Duck Sauce, Gyro, Biscuit, T-Bone, Pad Prik, Mystery Meat, and Chick-O-Stick

Show Notes:

• Intro music by Chick-O-Stick's old band
  
• Around the Horn
• Audiobooks
• Minions Web Presence
• Minions Webstore Announcement
• Classic Videogames
• WHFB For Sale
• Gutshot! Game Report
• Pig Wars Game Report
  
• Mouse Guard Actual Play
  

Solidly now in the double digits, episode eleven takes us back to familiar ground with the first actual play session of Mouse Guard, Around the Horn, and all the other Minions goodness. With a whopping seven hosts this time around, it's hard to believe we still didn't have a full house! We might be missing both Flounder and Americano, but it was still a good game.


Biscuit's character sketches decorated the walls for reference


A sneak peek of another Mouse Guard character from Biscuit

Episode 10: Martian Cinema

Episode 10: Martian Cinema
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Hosts: Duck Sauce, Gyro, Biscuit, and Pad Prik

Show Notes:

• Introductions
• Gasp! No Around the Horn
• [Martian] Cinema Gameplay
• Martian Progress Track
• A Cultist, a Cop, a Groundskeeper, and a Scientist walk into a bar...
• Late show T-Bone Sighting
  

In this episode, a few of us run through a quick game of Arkenstone Publishing's excellent Zombie Cinema. We have devised a Martian variant for the game, and this is the actual play of that session. Being a "pick up" game a few hours before episode eleven, we skipped a lot of the usual format, most notable the popular 'Around the Horn' segment.

The Martian variant board we used for the game

Episode 7: Dark Heresy, Animus Hereticus Conclusion

Episode 7: Dark Heresy, Animus Hereticus Conclusion
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Hosts: Duck Sauce, Little Gyro, Americano, Biscuit, and T-Bone

Show Notes:

• Introductions
• Around the Horn
• Upcoming Weekly Blogjobs
• Promoting the Podcast
• Steve Jobs
• Mouseguard prelims
• Beverage Banter
  
• Dark Heresy actual play
  

Tonight's episode marks the conclusion of this particular story arc of the acolytes' recent investigation. After tying up some loose ends, namely the recent assassination attempt in the gardens, and deepening their understanding of who the possessed servitor represents, the party finally tracks down the location of their ultimate quarry. Having lost their Arbites officer, and with one of their psykers recovering from a shattered leg, they are shorthanded, but time is short, and they have to go with what they've got.


The party cruises through the Caloric Debris Fields...

We're not finished with Dark Heresy for good, but we will definitely be switching gears for a little while, give Duck Sauce a bit of a GM break, and give Mouseguard a test drive for a little while. It's been a good run, and I think everyone agrees that DH was a blast to play. People are pretty attached to their character as well, so we definitely don't want to abandon them for good. It's very possible that the Ascension expansion will be out by the next time we hit Dirtside with our acolytes, so they may be getting the ultimate field promotion!

Episode 5: One-shot session of 3:16

Episode 5: One-shot session of 3:16
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Hosts: Duck Sauce, Little Gyro, T-Bone, Biscuit

Episode five consists of a quick, one-shot game of Gregor Hutton's excellent sci-fi rpg, 3:16 Carnage Amongst the Stars. Although we decided completely on a whim to play this game tonight, and there was zero prep time, it was still a fun session. The party, the boys of Baker squad, touch down on the asteroid Dürer to engage the enemy, which just happens to be a sentient planet in and of itself. Their secondary mission was to locate Delta squad and investigate suspicions of Delta squad tampering with their weapon kill-counters.

Episode 4: Dark Heresy, Animus Hereticus session 3

Episode 4: Dark Heresy Anima Hereticus session 3

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Hosts: Duck Sauce, Little Gyro, T-Bone, Americano

Show Notes:

• around the horn
• miniatures production costs
  
• actual play of Dark Heresy
• real-life gambling stories
• discussion of actual-play podcasts
  
• Evan Williams, American Ale, and you

We are now up to five total podcasts. In this last episode we continue with actual play of our Dark Heresy campaign, the Animus Hereticus. This is our third session of Dark Heresy while recording. Being close to the holidays we had many players not present, but we still ventured ahead and continued where the last episode left off. After a brief jaunt through the immaterium, our cargo hauler arrives at the pleasure planet of Quaddis. We have our contact name and a loose plan of what to do once on the ground...


...the controversial Hecuter 9 pistol (with red-dot sighting)


Pterra-Squirrels! 10:1 odds!

Episode 3: More Dark Heresy

Episode 3: Dark Heresy Anima Hereticus part 2

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Hosts: Duck Sauce, Gyro, Biscuit, Chick-O Stick, Mystery Meat, Flounder

Show Notes:

• laughs and shenanigans
  
• around the horn
• Biscuit sketches the peeps
  
• actual play of Dark Heresy
  
• Evan Williams and you
• a discussion of documentaries...of sorts
  

In our fourth podcast (episode three) we follow hot on the heels of the previous session just two days prior. The game picks up right in the middle of a large firefight with baronial forces as the acolytes try to get to their shuttle and get off world. The hosts share many hearty laughs to book end the actual play portion of the episode.


...action pics of the party's firefight

Episode 2: Dark Heresy Actual Play

Episode 2: Dark Heresy Anima Hereticus

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Hosts: Duck Sauce, T-Bone, Gyro, Biscuit, Chick-O Stick, Mystery Meat, Americana

Show Notes:

• three new players to the show
  
• around the horn
  
• actual play of Dark Heresy
  
• a couple of brief sports segues
  
• Yuengling and you
  

In our third podcast (episode two) we launch into our monthly 'weekend' game which is currently Dark Heresy. This episode picks up after a couple of brief encounters as our acolytes embark on a new mission for their Inquisitor investigating possible Xeno-tech weapons being used by minor nobility on an industrial mining world.

Episode 1: The Lost Session

"Black Jack" Onyx was plying a meager trade route in the outskirts of the Callixus Sector, financed by the mid-tier trade consortium Collective Menelauis . It was consistent, if not extremely prosperous, work. On one route, while hauling grain from an agri-world, he received a distress call from a navy vessel requesting immediate assistance from all Imperial craft within hearing. By the time Onyx showed up, he discovered a badly battered Sword-class frigate making way as best she could. Investigating, he quickly discovered the ship was manned by an Eldar prize crew trying to get the captured vessel into hiding! Quickly taking stock of the situation, Onyx led his merchant crew in a boarding action against the frigate. Numbers soon told, and the vile Eldar corsairs, no doubt crew of the notorious Ulthyr Ellarion, were soon wiped out.

Episode 1: Rogue Trader First Session

Episode 1: Rogue Trader First Session

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Hosts: Duck Sauce, T-Bone, Gyro, and Biscuit

Show Notes:

• the show gets a new host
  
• around the horn
  
• iTunes announcement
• hail to our blog followers
• the Lovecraft Circle
  
• epic fail with a major rookie mistake

This could possibly be the shortest podcast we may ever produce. If you've followed along thus far, you may have picked up on the fact that our outfit is rather, hmm, developmental in its beginning stages. So, our 'epic fail' occurred early in the show.

My idea was to kind of "edit on the fly" pausing where need be, gain our bearings, unpause it and get rolling. Of course this flies in the face of my previous stance in the vein of Hitchcock's "Rope" where I suggested we roll it without stopping. Now in hindsight, I'm thinking that my original inclination was the really the right way to go.

Our "podcast technical equipment" is new to the group, including its owner, tech-sherpa Duck Sauce. When we thought we "unpaused" it, err, we didn't. That being the case, the bulk of the show, which was the most important part of the show, the actual game play itself, was completely left out. Ah, what can you do?

C'est la vie, these are the birthing pangs of being a bunch of rookies I guess. No, we're not going to "reshoot" or anything, we're just going to move on.